Job 17:1
Good News Translation
The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe; there is nothing left for me but the grave.

New Revised Standard Version
My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.

Contemporary English Version
My hopes have died, my time is up, and the grave is ready.

New American Bible
My spirit is broken, my days finished, my burial at hand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.

breath is corrupt.

Job 19:17 My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.

my days

Job 6:11 For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?

Job 42:16 And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation,

Isaiah 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make.

the graves

Job 17:13,14 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. . . .

Psalm 88:3-5 For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell. . . .

Isaiah 38:10-14 I said: In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of hell: I sought for the residue of my years. . . .

Context
Job Prepares for Death
1My spirit shall be wasted, my days shall be shortened and only the grave remaineth for me.2I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.…
Cross References
Psalm 88:3
For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

Psalm 88:4
I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

Job 16:22
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